After President Obama came to power, he ran trillion dollar deficits every year, doubled spending, exploded the national debt, downgraded the country’s credit rating, and sought to remove the debt limit, permanently.

Unemployment slowly declines because of the record numbers of Americans giving up, joblessness is endemic in the black community, women are losing their jobs in droves, and over half of young grads won’t find a job in their fields. Although the president and his Democrat Party have had majority control since 2006, the Republicans are blamed for all that goes wrong and the Democrats receive credit for all that somehow goes right (and notice there’s not a lot of that going around).

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ‘sought an end-around‘ the Counterterrorism Security Group during the Benghazi terror attacks on the eleventh anniversary of September 11th.

On Wednesday, three whistleblowers are slated to testify to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and give testimony that may shed light on why the Obama administration deliberately withheld intelligence and military assets from aiding U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens when he came under attack at a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

You’ve got to love how Democrats get to define who is authentically Latino, Hispanic, black, female, gay and what-not, simply based on if they subscribe to a certain ideology. That’s quite a trick.

Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson insulted Texas Senator Ted Cruz repeatedly, while laughably claiming Cruz introduces a measure of incivility to political discourse. The following is the video and description from ABC:

President Obama shared a much-needed laugh with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu while in Israel about the ‘red line’ (see video below) but after revelations that Syria’s dictator Bashar Assad likely used sarin gas on his own people, the phrase has become gravely serious.

In August 2012, President Obama spoke about the ongoing civil war in Syria: “We have been very clear to the Assad regime, and also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch [sic] of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.”

The last few years have been quiet on Rogue Government. That’s because a remarkable journey has taken me away from my beloved and charmingly insular blog to what conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh comically referred to on separate occasions as a “probably accurate” “local newspaper” known as IJReview.com.

In some ways, I feel like my life is a dream right now. It’s unbelievable what I actually get paid to do with my time. Really. No… really. But few people actually know what I do, and most of my day is spent – as the Chief “Bubba” says – like a “ninja” in the shadows.

How’d I get here? One day, after enough time and aggravation spent in the Obama job market, I finally had enough: I was going to become a professional writer. That proved to be about as tough as I thought it would be.

My first outing as a writer was a 500 page book, still being tinkered with, called Envirotopia. My marketing plan was non-existent heading into it, but I had a lot of passion and a powerful vision. After I finished the book, I decided to attempt getting an audiobook completed for it as a free means to draw interest to it. That plan’s still in the process of completion.

So I moved on to a gig at Conservative Daily News due to the lovably surly Michelle Ray aka GaltsGirl on Twitter. She was the first person who got me onto a website where it was conceivably possible to make money. The deal was that you had to place among the top 5 writers every month to draw a check. And to my surprise, that didn’t take long at all.

But it wasn’t quite enough. So, on a whim, I threw my resume up on a website called eLance. When several weeks later I was contacted by a website I had never heard of called Independent Journal Review, I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I literally couldn’t believe it; as in, I agreed to the job through eLance, but continued on as if nothing had happened.

Days passed. Weeks even. Suddenly, a guy named “Bubba” was sending a bewildered email, wondering if I ever was going to show up, and, you know, do my job. Finally realizing that this “Independent Journal Review” was real, and the guys running it were serious, after all, I got into gear. Well, as much as you can get into gear when you’re initially offered ten hours a week.

But I eased into the role during the summer months of 2012, bringing the virtually unreadable, wall-of-text, “academic” (in the worst sense of the word) style with me to the fledgling start-up. I racked my brains thinking of how to inject all my idealistic notions into the posts, as if intentionally trying to turn off every reader on the planet.

After a couple thousand painful discussions arguing with “Bubba,” I felt like I finally grasped what he wanted me to do. Don’t talk to everyone as if they’re already on your side, but be chill and funny and creative and confident. Drop the “activist” attitude. Take your point-of-view to the masses and don’t expect them to come to you – unless you can entertain them or promise them something useful.

A year passed. The associate editor disappeared after Obama won the election. I was given a whole 20 hours to work, and the rest is history. I think I work about 20 hours a day now, or at least it feels that way. But I don’t notice the time pass, I’m too busy having fun.

In the meantime, IJReview.com has gone from off-the-grid to the #1 conservative website in the nation by number of monthly people, as of last week. Now, we’re #2 to FoxNews.com, but we’re hanging in there at about 20 million people, per Quantcast (the same ranker that Drudge Report posts on its homepage).

Since I’m always into the Google Analytics, of course, the numbers are higher there. We’re currently heading back towards 60 million sessions, 30 million users, and 70 million pageviews a month.

What do I do at IJReview.com? I’m currently in the position of managing editor, so that means I tweak all the posts, such as the images and headlines for optimum likability and sharability. I also write my own posts and very routinely score among the tops in the world on social media. Here’s my profile for today via Spike with my buddy and long-time top writer Mike Miller 1 & 2 in Content Creator Facebook likes:

But one thing I do that virtually no one knows about is that I run about 75%-80% of the posts on the 5 million + fan Facebook page Conservative Daily, which is pretty much the best publisher in the world in terms of Facebook likes/shares per article post:

See, the number of people who see the posts on Conservative Daily each week even dwarf our considerable website traffic. In a given week, some 50 million – 60 million people see our posts on Facebook. Essentially, this means that I likely reach as many people with my Facebook posts per week as Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly do on their media outlets, if not more.

But I’ve never gotten an invitation to speak on a major terrestrial radio show, let alone a television show, let alone speaking at a major event, let alone anything else outside of our awesome website, when Bubba Atkinson gave me the 2013 Employee of the Year award at CPAC. Still, our website traffic dwarfs the Drudge Report (without getting many of their links) in terms of number of people reached each week, rivals that of Fox News, and is currently edging The Blaze. That’s it’s own kind of satisfaction, and it’s enough.

At IJReview, we made it a specific goal to reach as many people outside of the “conservative bubble” as humanly possible in order to promote the messages of responsible government, individual rights, freedom, and economic opportunity to those people who aren’t conservatives. By that measure alone, I judge our website to be moving in the right direction, and am ecstatic to be a part of such a great team. And we have a few things on the horizon that will likely surprise some people.

Oh yeah, we also find ways to make stuff like dogs falling for a magic trick being like Obama voters getting duped into re-electing him to his second term. Just sayin.’

This is Sunshine Week, March 16-22, 2014. “Open government is good government.” Celebrating Your Right to Know. Uh huh.

So you may be unaware that President Obama rewrote the Freedom of Information Act, without telling the rest of America.

The rewrite came in a memo from then-White House Counsel Greg Craig on April 15, 2009, instructing the executive branch to let White House officials review any documents sought by FOIA requestors that involved “White House equities.” That word is not to be found in the law, but the Obama White House effectively amended the law to justify keeping public documents locked away from the public. Cause of Action, is a Washington-based nonprofit watchdog group that monitors government transparency and accountability.

The exception “applies to all documents and records, whether in oral, paper, or electronic form, that relate to communications to and from the White House, including preparations for such…

IJReview.com hits the #3 conservative website by monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the 17th “news and politics” site in the United States, including all websites who publish in that category. On a side note, new start-up Liftbump.com cracks the Top 60. Here’s how we feel about that:

Rankings according to monthly people at Quantcast (in millions):

Buzzfeed (73.5m)*

Huffington Post (71-73m)*

NBC News (38.6m)

Reddit (34.8m)*

Examiner.com (28.6m)

Upworthy (27.3m)*

Fox News (22.6m)

Time (20.7m)

NYDN (20.7m)

NYT (20.1m)

Blaze (17.8m)

Today (16.6m)

Café Mom (15.99m)

CNN (15.1m)

Gawker (14.4)

IBTimes (14.1m)

IJReview.com (14.08m)

Newsmax (13.2m)

Guardian (12.9m)

Drudge (10.9m)

LiveLeak (9.7m)

Nj.com (9.67m)

The Verge (9.61m)

WSJ (9.5m)

Forbes (9.4M)

CNBC (9.27m)

Jezebel (8.78m)

NBC (8.7m)

Politico (8.58m)

Conservativepost.com (8.3m)

CS Monitor (7.89m)

Wimp.com (7.87m)

Bloomberg (7.45m)

Telegraph (7.05m)

Policymic (6.87m)

Daily Beast (6.6m)

Washington Times (6.59M)

Christianpost.com (6.46m)

Salon (6.3m)

MSNBC (6.16m)

PBS.Org (5.77M)

DailyMail (5.74m)

Mlive.com (5.68M)

NPR.org (5.5M)

OpposingViews.com (5.38M)

SFgate.com (5.31m)

ABC News (4.8M)

Star Tribune (4.66M)

Oregon Live (4.64M)

Daily Caller (4.5m)

CBS News (4.4m)

Think Progress (4.3M)

LA Times (4.3M)

Mercury News (4.25M)

Daily Kos (4.18M)

MiaMI herald (4.14M)

Liftbump.com (4.138M)

USA Today (4.1m)

Breitbart (Hidden – Appx.)

The Week (4.06M)

*These websites’ traffic are not completely driven by news and politics, but it is difficult to disaggregate. One statistic for Huffington Post, for example, is that HuffPo Politics has less than 500K likes. Buzzfeed and Huffington post add political comment sparingly to a broad variety of content – cultural, entertainment, and cat videos.

Independent Journal Review climbs to the #22 ranking by number of monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the fifth largest conservative website by U.S. traffic behind Fox News, The Blaze, The Drudge Report, and Newsmax.

For some perspective, more people in the U.S. currently read IJReview.com every month than the Wall Street Journal, NBC.com, CBSNews.com, Bloomberg, Forbes, Slate, Salon, Breitbart, and the Daily Caller.

As Karl Marx once quoted Goethe “everything that exists deserves to perish.” And it is exactly that petulant and craven mentality birthed by the king of the freeloaders that conservatives are up against.

The “progressive” notion of freedom is freedom from responsibility. It is hard to see eye-to-eye with “progressives” and perfectly understandable that they have no regard for the truth in their quest to make everyone else pay for their stuff and to never be held accountable for the damage they cause society.

It’s all about their “intentions,” don’t you know, as they ignore history, Nature, the will of the people, the lessons of political philosophy, the letter of the law and truth itself.

For whatever may result from “progressives'” actions, it’s always society’s fault; that is to say, everyone else’s fault. Whatever may go awry with their policies, it’s always their “conservative” opposition’s fault. Something always needs to be paid for, but with other people’s time, money, labor, blood, sweat and aggravation. Something has to be done — but by someone else. And if it doesn’t get done — saboteurs must have obstructed it.

There can be nothing but animosity between makers and takers, which puts the lie to their facade of “unity”: the Democrat Party openly brags about the “justice” of 51% paying federal income taxes for the 49%, the “compassion” of over 49% on federal aid, and the “benefit” of 48% of Obamacare participants getting subsidies.

These things have to come from somewhere; but the unseen costs are seldom appreciated by the reflexive progressives. They never understand that their giving away of free stuff comes at such a heavy price — the wrecked communities, the wasted lives, and the emptying treasury. We’re not even talking about a ‘socialism for the workers’ at this point; we’ve hit the point where we’re talking about socialism for the non-workers.

The Democrats are bribing voters to the tune of hundreds of trillions by some estimates, and have been for decades, in exchange for people merely giving up their freedom. Such an easy trade: the unseen for the tangible. The future for ornate shreds of printed paper. The cold payday for the cold comfort of seeing through another tomorrow. But this stolen responsibility comes on borrowed time, as the debt piles up and the things we buy get more expensive on a weaker dollar. It’s ingenious, because all the resultant misery can all be blamed on “greed.”

But is it the “greed” of the producers who want to be recompensed in kind for their value that is wrecking the nation? Or is the “greed” of politicians who are abusing the force of the state to raid future treasuries and to dispatch the imaginary funds to increasingly impoverished voters?

Ultimately, our children will pay for such greed with their life’s opportunities. There can be no reward for creativity or striving to be the best one can be in an economy dominated by an ossified, petty and domineering bureaucracy. The system dissolves in entropy borne of apathy; and as stasis sets in, the political community sinks into the ash heap of history.

That is the intention of socialism. But the question is: Does the state ever wither away? Does the utopian dawn come, phoenix-like, to rescue people from themselves? Ask the tens of millions who followed Marxism and perished along with it.